Chem List

Anyone have a good and trusted list of chemicals? I know most of you guys and girls have a wide assortment of chems. I'm looking for a good list along with maybe some scenarios that these chemicals may be used in? Thanks for the help everyone.

 

I dose kent liquid calcuim,(personal preference), coralife liquid gold, and kent superbuffer... But only after checking my parameters....

 

i don't dose anything, and i don't recommend dosing anything without making absolutely sure your system is lacking of it.

 

With the large assortment of soft corals that I have, I do dose Lugol's iodine. I also dose kalkwasser due to the stony corals and inverts that require it. I try to maintain my calcium level at 500ppm. With doing this though, you must check your pH, magnesium and alkalinity levels, as they counteract with each other.

Purple up is a great product that has offered myself, as well as countless others, great success.
Having said this, by performing a weekly water change regimine, you will be offering your inhabitants a continueous amount of beneficial salts and essential traces that would cost an arm and a leg if you were to dose each one separately, not to mention the amount of time that would entail.
Skimmers, carbon and livestock will deplete many beneficial nutrients and other key elements, therefore it is adviseable to replenish these on a weekly basis, hence the small weekly water changes. Not to mention the other important implications brought out by doing water changes!
best of luck!

 

Just to add on what CR stated already, It all depends on how old your system is and what you want to house in your tank. As mentioned below, never add anything without testing for it. By doing weekly WC's, your replacing everything you need back into the tank. The only time that you need to add or dose any other element is when your comsumption rate is greater than your weekly WC can replenish. Luna

 

DITTO!!! --- Use a common brand salt mix, and it will take care of all the chemical contents, adjustments you need.

With the exception of maybe a calcium supplement if you are keeping a large population of LPS/SPS corals...all else not needed, or recommended.

Ignor all those nice "snake-oil" advertisements on gazillion of products. Mixing them up in tank can be very risky...

IMHO

 

so less is more? That's almost the reverse of what I was thinking, with the intense subculture of fancy gizmo's that you see for sale. Thanks for the help. I'll be doing a w/c today and removing some rock (too crowded.)

 

Just a question, but wouldn't this be a sign that you have too large of a bio-load on your tank, or that you're adding too much too soon?

 

More, in my opinion, will get you into more trouble! Abrupt water parameter changes and human error are more evident if you start adding unecessary and too many supplements etc.

 

No!
water changes are an ideal and effective way to reduce disolved organics, pollutants, toxins, carbon dioxide, tanins and other negative variable that can plaque and alter your water quality, thus, ultimately effecting your livestock. Water changes will also replenish important salts and traces that are quickly depleted through respiration, skimmer, carbon and other livestock!